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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
market have damaged their credibility. This was discouraging for those investors who were hoping that Beijing was making its markets more free. A fake marketplace creates distrust and is counterproductive in the long term. This interview...
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- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
their nations' labor force, or that some countries have infant mortality rates more than ten times our own. Indeed, access to a computer, well enough access to sanitation or a telephone, can be very limited around the world. The lists go on. People in Delhi and View Details
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by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'
By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-044. In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15-year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical Management Group ("Jiamei") rode the wave of China's rapid economic development and had become China's largest private dental chain...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
competition in the 1960s between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China for the leadership in the Third World. When newly independent states emerged from decolonization desperately poor and politically disorganized, Moscow and View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
universities were participating in its two-year teaching fellowships in more than 87 rural Chinese schools. The organization had grown from a founding team of three in a shoebox office to an 80-person operation headquartered in Beijing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
companies in Beijing alone. Is there an investment bubble in China? Yes, so our job is to manage, as best we can, through the bubbles. Today in China, there is simply too much investment in young Internet companies, in particular, most of...
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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
challenging Chinese macroeconomic environment, SOHO China, the largest owner and developer of Class-A real estate in Beijing and Shanghai, was struggling to convince analysts of the merits of its new “build-to-hold” strategy. Founded as a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
think there’s been a long-standing point of view that Silicon Valley is the heart of the tech industry in the United States. Then similarly, of course, there are places like Beijing in China and other places like Bangalore in India. But...
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- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
others to make a similar effort," Gaida notes. "This mutual adjustment eventually becomes the norm within an organization." At Philip Morris International's Beijing office, Andy Klump says, "There is an emerging...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
notes. “This mutual adjustment eventually becomes the norm within an organization.” At Philip Morris International’s Beijing office, Andy Klump says, “There is an emerging international business style, but it varies dramatically by...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
global brand advertising campaign called This Is Yoga. The spots include zero yoga as a physical practice. Olympic gold medalist volleyballer Kerri Walsh Jennings, Australian pop artist CJ Hendry, Beijing drummer Shi “Atom” Lu, London...
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Deborah Halber
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to...
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Deborah Blagg
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
most heartless one of all is the Shanghai Jioa Tong ranking. Chinese universities Tsinghua and Beijing University, these are in the top 20, 30 or 40 depending on the rankings in the other rankings, but they are 150th and beyond in the one...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
notion of a single fintech capital—whether it be New York or London, Beijing or the Bay Area—may be misplaced. Instead, the future of fintech may resemble what Gibbins describes as a global network of distributed ecosystems, each with its...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
satisfactory answer for her. No matter what language negotiations are conducted in, understanding the local etiquette can seal the business deal, says Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012). A graduate of a Swiss finishing school, Ho founded Institute Sarita in View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from 10 countries, including new materials from Russia and China, many no longer accessible to...
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